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May 3, 2012 · Fast-forward a century and half—where are we now in understanding the origins of human morality and conscience? Well, there are quite a few books on the subject.
Sep 4, 2019 · The debate on the question of the moral status of human beings and the boundaries of the moral community has long been dominated by the antagonism between personism and speciesism: either certain...
Humans have a moral sense because their biological makeup determines the presence of three necessary conditions for ethical behavior: ( i) the ability to anticipate the consequences of one’s own actions; ( ii) the ability to make value judgments; and ( iii) the ability to choose between alternative courses of action.
I argue for the moral relevance of being human, but without falling for a biological way of thinking and thus the verdict of speciesism. I advocate a concept of being human that is free from scientistic reductions as well as essentialist idealisations.
Sep 1, 2018 · The Origins of Human Morality. How we learned to put our fate in one another’s hands. By Michael Tomasello. Yuko Shimizu. September 2018 Issue. Evolution. If evolution is about survival of the...
Apr 17, 2002 · Morality applies to people simply by virtue of their being rational persons who know what morality prohibits, requires, etc., and being able to guide their behavior accordingly. Public systems can be formal or informal.
May 5, 2010 · The question of whether the moral sense is biologically determined may refer either to the capacity for ethics (i.e., the proclivity to judge human actions as either right or wrong), or to the moral norms accepted by human beings for guiding their actions.
